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Personal information about editors and writers at the paper has been posted online, including their home addresses and information about where their children attended school; some reporters have received notes saying they would be shot on the way to their cars; bloggers have encouraged people to steal credit card information of Journal News employees; and two packages containing white powder have been sent to the newsroom and a third to a reporter’s home (all were tested by the police and proved to be harmless).

“As journalists, we are prepared for criticism,” Ms. Hasson said, as she sat in her meticulously tended office and described the ways her 225 employees have been harassed since the article was published. “But in the U.S., journalists should not be threatened.” She has paid for staff members who do not feel safe in their homes to stay at hotels, offered guards to walk employees to their cars, encouraged employees to change their home telephone numbers and has been coordinating with the local police.

Mr. Worley said he had received mainly taunting phone calls sprinkled in with callers who said “you should die.” He found broken glass outside of his home and would not say how much time he was spending there right now. But he said he had largely been supported by the newsroom.

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What about those people who were "outed" who have been threatened or harassed? I read a story where prison guards are being harassed and threatened by inmates because they now have their home addresses. (Not to mention people who AREN'T on the list who now feel vulnerable.)

Just because information is public record does not make it right to publish it ... legal, yes ... right? maybe not.

And, while I don't condone encouraging any threats or actions against the employees of the newspaper, their home addresses likely are public record as well ... property tax records, etc.